It was really a matter of
when, not if,
RIM would throw its hat into the tablet arena with a
BlackBerry branded device. Now the fun and games iPad has an appropriate foil in the all business
BlackBerry PlayBook. The 7-inch device runs an "amplified" (to use RIM's marketing speak) version of BlackBerry OS with multi-tasking, a WebOS-like app switcher and a brand new WebKit browser with support for Flash 10.1. The usual mix of media and e-reading apps will be present, as will the ability to edit office documents, connect to screens and projectors via HDMI (and pump out 1080p video!), and of course all the BlackBerry e-mail and messaging goodness you've come to associate with the brand. Under the hood, the BlackBerry PlayBook packs a dual core 1Ghz processor and a full 1GB of RAM, theoretically doubling the power of that other big name tablet.
RIM is billing the PlayBook as the first "professional-grade" tablet, and while Apple (among plenty of others) might take umbrage, other companies don't command the same amount of respect from enterprise customers as RIM. The
iPad might have cornered a large market, but a device like the surprisingly sexy PlayBook has a good shot of getting tablets into the boardroom. Sadly, there's no word on price or release date yet. Check out the promo video after the break.
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Subscribe to commentsHal 9000Sep 27th 2010 6:03PM
It is funny to see how all the new tables in the market offer the flash support as if it was a state-of-the-art technology. Flash is an outdated technology, popular, yes, but obsolete. the future is HTML5. I recall the day, more than 10 years ago when Apple do the same thing with the Floppy Disk in the iMac product line.
UberSilSep 27th 2010 10:07PM
They should have named it the Blueberry.
To be honest, it seems like a tablet that isn't big enough to write all to well on and too small to use as a phone. And much like Android it's using what is essentially still a phone OS. But... I wait to be proven wrong.
Paul DenisOct 5th 2010 2:47PM
I don't think their tauting it as a new technology, but a benefit since the Apple's IOS devices DON'T and probably never will have it. On the other hand. Apple promoted Copy & Paste as something revolutionary when they added it to their iPhone OS a couple of years ago.